Where Children Sleep employs a documentary photographic approach that reveals the intimate personal spaces of children from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds. The images focus on the beds and bedrooms where these children rest, highlighting contrasts in material wealth, cultural context, and living conditions around the world.
The photographs serve as visual testimonies to the disparities in childhood experiences, using the quietness of each sleeping environment to evoke reflection on issues of privilege, poverty, and identity. James Mollison’s work in this 2010 Chris Boot publication brings a layered sociological perspective to the project, spanning 120 pages of carefully composed imagery.
